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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-01-23, Page 15.iirnespAdvocate, .Joeuary 23, 1980 Weil Do the Job Right,..._... We've Moved Our Office we are now located at ourixeter shop Whatever the project, call on vs for Ready-Mix Concrete- • RESI DE NTIAL • COMMERCIAL • FARM (Including Manure Tanks) FREE ESTIMATES 15 Save Tax Dollars with a REGISTERED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN PAYING 1 O Per Annum Check these features 6, NO opening charge NO administration fees NO withdrawal charge Open a plan with us today and ask how your present plan can 1:)e transferred to your Credit Union! Clinton Community CREDIT UNION Old Town Hell building 70 Ontario St., EXETER CLINTON 235.0640 4182.3447 Assmilsommassmsomss. 12% • CHICKEN • SEAFOOD • SALADS • Di* e FRIED CHICKEN & SEAFOOD Exeter 235-2665 G GUARDIAN DRUGS® Effective Until Jan. 26 Bell/awards contract to expand centre A contract to expand the Bell Canada switching centre in Centralia has been awarded to Bratt Con- struction Co. Ltd. of Hyde Park, near London, Peter Croome, local Bell manager, said Monday. The contract, plus other Bell expenses in connection with the building extension, will cost Bell about $50,000, he said. The extension, to the rear of the building, will be one storey without basement, measuring about 15 feet by 30 feet. It is to be completed by May, 1980. The extension will be used initially for additional trunking facilities, with equipment to handle more main telephones scheduled for next year. SOME OF OUR JANUARY SPECIALS Head & Shoulders Bromo Seltzer Wondra Lotion 250 ml lotion or 140 ml tube 225 g. '1.93 '1.99 1.69 Daytime 30's and Daytime Extra Absorbent Pampers Disposable Diapers x2.83 rg.erfest '80 given go ahead, rking lot feel are debated • ter. some deliberation an a few -suggestions,. d Bend Connell decided to,( let the Chamber of p king. lot to hold. a Cri.rimerce. have the beach .13 gerfeSt. this summer. retary manager of the C ber, Robert Simpson,. c ne-to council on behalf of group to ask for the 'ch parking lot to hold the er tent, .Councillor. Harold Green reed to let- the. chamber ye the parking lot as long they didn't .charge visitors park. there, Councillor ith. Crawford backed een up. "I'd like to See mething for (reel he said. • ;Simpson told council that 'though the main purpose of Rirgerfest is. to draw people ti Grand Bend, they have to y expenses, "We have to 1 ok at every way to make a . )11ar," Simpson said. Arguments in paSt years band and had previously belonged to a smoker. Many of my ;friends at Western were smokers, who also liked to bum rides. A no- smokitg rule just wasn't worth the hassle. ButI wanted to hang on to the new car smell as long as n osiplein My Mustang The o-smoking policy worked weltuntil last week when I sent her in for an oil change. She tame back with ashes in her'f previously clean ash tray': w that I have the nerve to ell someone I'd rather the didn't smoke in my car or' ouse, the next step is speaking upin other places. That's going to be more difficidt, This is, however, no smoking week, and today is "Weedless Wednesday", so maybe now I can do it. Smoking - I hope - is going the way of spitting and belching. Had you been sitting at the dinner table of King Henry VIII it would have been quite polite to 'let go with a deep rumbling burp at the end of the meal. Gelled you lived lit the last century, and gone into your favourite saloon for a brew, it would have been quite acceptable to spit in the brass spittoon. But times change, thank heavens, and' we don't welcome belchers and spitters with open arms anymore. I think the day will come when smoking will be totally socially unac- ceptable. It's certainly not considered as, glamourous as it was a few decades ago, Unfortunately we can't really draw comparisons between belching and spitting and smoking. For some people spitting is as to Whether or not the chamber has. the right to. charge for parking after council givers thenl, the, parking let, prompted Green's reluctance to agree to the offer. Reeve Robert Sharen suggested that if .the. Chamber was going to charge for parking, they. erect A sign saying that proceeds from the parking lot are going to the Chamber of CoMmerce. Simpson agreed-to tell the .Chamber ex eutive council's opinions, a 'said he would give them the reeve's suggestion. Council decided to, up all their 1980 docking fees by $1. The seasonal rate went from $15 to $16 per foot depending °tithe sip of the boat, Daily rates for boats under.2.2 feet- rose to $4 boats up to 30 feet rose to $5 and boats over 30 feet went to $6.. After the decision was Made Crawford asked jokingly if those ineastirementS. .should be. changed to metric. Council disagreed.,/ Couneil authorized the Ausable Bayfield Con- servation Authority to proceed with 'repair work 04 tiles and gabtan baskets in the Walker drain at Green, Haven. Councillor Bill Baird declared a' conflict of in- terest. When the motion was made. Baird owns Green Haven, A sign permit was granted to. Sunshine. Village IGA, Reeve Sharen reported that Michael Owen` of the Village Inn had been found guilty of violating the village's sign by-law in provincial court in Forest last week. Sharen said that Owen had argued that the sign law was vague in some areas, and council agreed that the by-lawShould be more specific. A request from Huron- Country Playhouse for permission to use the village's sewage lagoon was discussed. The septic tank system at the 'playhouse is no longer adequate, and. they wanted to purchase a holding tank and then.truck sewage to the lagoon. Baird said that he would be reluctant to 'give theta: permission because then' septic tank cleaners would A combination of mild weather and recalls from area firms have resulted in a comparatively good em- ployment picture for Exeter and area, according to the Canada Employment Centre. John Gillespie of the centre said the winter em- ployment picture is better, at this time than it has been in the previous• three of four years. As of January 1,706 people had registered with the of- fice, down from about 850 a .year ago, he said. • While there are more people working at this time compared , to a year. age, Gillespie'`said 'it is, more difficult to become a member of the labour-force. Among the areas which have shown strength has been the construction in- dustry with the un-winter like conditions allowing for work which might not nor- mally be attempted until spring. Asked about the attitudes of the unemployed at this time of year Gillespie said there were two types' of in- dividuals; those who were on a temporary 'layoff and those people who did not have a job to return to. . While there are few want to use the lagoon as well. Sharen argued that the playhouse is a non-profit organization while others are in business, Green felt that the holding tanks would be inadequate for all the Playhouse visitors, as well as the 23 people, who live there, and washing, facilities. It was depidett to take the problem up with the -sewer liason committee, "We'll have a lot more hassels as soon as the system is in oPeration,". Baird said. Council members voted to raise their own salaries by $5 per meeting. The Reeve will now be getting $55, the deputy reeve will receive $52.50 and councillors . will get $50, If the councils of Stephen and Bosanquet agree volunteer firemen will get an . increase of 25 cents an hour. Council would like to give officers $6.25 and hour, and firemen $5.25. Council members also agreed to endorse a request to raise a firemen's income tax exemption from $300 to $1000, • At the conclusion of the meeting council passed a number of by-laws ,con- cerning easements' of properties needed in sewer construction. After that, they went in camera to discuss personnel matters. federally funded job creation programs operating Gillespie said the employer tax credit program will be stressed the next two months. Under the program em- ployers are eligible- to receive a tax credit up to $3,000 if they hire personel in addition to their normal staff. Employers can take advantage of the program a until the end of March. Local resident Wayne Mayer has been, hired to 'assist in the promotion.of the tax credit plan. To date, about 10 firms have hired between 45 and 50 The Pinery Park detach- ment of the Ontario Provincial Police had a busy week watching area drivers. Between January 13 and 19, they laid 23 charges under the highway traffic act. Seven people were charged under the liquor licence act. Two criminal code charges were laid, and two thefts were investigated. The Pinery detachment announces that Bill Elliott, who has been stationed with them since 1974, has recently been promoted to the rank of Mary's musings BY MARY ALDERSON finally did it'- I got up my nirve,, and answered "yes"necessary as ockey to'thattoo-comthon question, players) and belching can you mind lif I smoke?" bring relief (let's hope it's in eighbours /had come to private). On the other hand, o door With! a petition to when has smoking ever been sin, both.f them smoking. I absolutely necessary? t .d them myhusband and I Just consider it '- had you dn't smoke, and yes, we 1:11 mind. ,At first I felt t rribly guilty as I watched ttem grind out their cigarettes on the sidewalk. en I felt good - afterall it our home, and why s ould I give them my butter dish to use as an ashtray? . I had decided I would have and I'm just starting to q no smoking policy in my become militant. But new car, too. I hadn't been as reformed non-smokers are fussy about my dear old ' much worse. Well, why Pinto, bat she was second shouldn't they be?? They have a right to be militant about not smoking - after all, they've kicked the habit, so why can't everybody? Last week's Maclean's Magazine says that peer pressure is having a greater effect on smokers than all the 1 health warnings. The article says that a Van- couver man enrolled in a clinic to quit smoking because his seven year old daughter was crying herself to sleep every night in the conviction that her smoking daddy was "killing himself". Since 1965 the proportion of nonsmokers has increased by nine per cent; now non- smokers are 58.1 percent majority of Canada's over- age-15 population. (They should check on those 15 and under, too.) Smoke filled political back rooms are changing with the times. Joe Clark is an ab- stainer and Pierre Trudeau had the strictest separatism in his cabinet: smokers to the back, like bad boys, purer-- souls nearer to the centre of power, says Maclean's. One of the newest slogans of a non-smoking organization is "Kissing a Smoker is Like Licking an Ashtray. On top of all the lung and heart problems that go with smoking, a recent article in the London Free Press said that heavy smokers have greater difficulty remem- bering things, than non- smokers. Even Rene Levesque Canada's most famous smoker - switched to lights, and said he would try not to smoke in front of the television cameras. Thanks, Rene. never heard of smoking, what you would think if you saw' someone roll up some weeds in a piece of paper, ignite it, and inhale the fumes? And even worse, exhale the smoke in front of other people! I've never been, a smoker 10, PLAYING ANY LONE HANDS? — Euchre was the name of the game at the Lioness dub card party held in Grdnd Bend Public School gymnasium last Wednesday evening. Watching for trump and enjoying the fun are Hazel Broad of Grand Cove Estates, Sharon Soldan, Shelley Meechain and Irene McCann, all of Grand Bend. T-A photo employees under the program, In a brief review of the employment picture last summer, he said he's learned from officials in Ottawa that the unem- ployment rate in the office's area Was two percent. An unemployment rate of three percent or less is considered to be full employment ac- cording to Gillespie, "People who were out of work were out of work by choice," he said, The long awaited in- tegration of the man power and the unemployment in- surance divisions is starting to take form in a small way with the Exeter office ex- perimenting with the on-site handling of unemployment insurance problems. Gillespie said the service which became operational in December, will be evaluated for its efectiveness at the end of February. "From our point of view, it's been excellent," Gillespie stated. Looking after the operation is Laura Overholt of Exeter. Others Available As Low As '5.95 Employment situation seems good , thanks to mild winter weather Exeter Pharmacy Ltd. Main Street 235-1570 BRIDGING THE GAPS — Flo Murray, Irene Kennedy, Clarke Kennedy and David Murray played bridge at the Lioness card party in the Grand Bend Public School gymnasium, inery OPP chargeidrivers C. A. McDOWELL LTD. EXETER, ONTARIO Plant: 235-0833 Office: 235.1969 Corporal. This week , Elliott is being transfered to the Killaloe detachment, south- west of Pembroke. His replacement is Constable Martin Brown, formerly of Forest detachment. Constable R.J. Kotwa asks that the public be reminded that due to the mild winter, ice on rivers and lakes might not be of sufficient thickness in certain areas to be safe. Before you walk or skate on ice, make sure it is at least six inches thick.